Garfield: Caught in the Act

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Garfield: Caught in the Act
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear, Windows PC
Publisher: Sega Sega PC
Developer: Sega of America Sega Interactive Novotrade International Point of View
Licensor: Paws, Inc.
Sound driver: GEMS
Peripherals supported: Six Button Control Pad
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code US 1995-11 1556 EU 1995-12 1556-50 PT 199x SE (Rental) 199x AU 1995 FGAR02SMC BR 199x 046990 US 1995 $44.9944.99 2560 EU 1995-11 2560-50 UK 1995-11 £29.9929.99 2560-50 BR 199x 077290 US 1997 85023 US (Expert Software) 1997-09 $19.9919.99 T-6803-01

Garfield: Caught in the Act is a platform game starring the characters from the Garfield comic series. It was released for the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Game Gear in 1995, and was brought to Windows in 1996 as a stand-alone title as well as through the Sonic & Garfield Pack.

A port to the Sega 32X under the title of Garfield in TV Land was planned, but scrapped. The name was still used in the packaging of the initial PC release, even though the game itself retains the original title.

Story

Introduction

Odie scares Garfield while he is watching television, and he ends up falling on the television. In a rushed effort to repair the television before Jon catches them, Garfield and Odie attempt to put the banged up and broken pieces together. They did actually put something together, but it was far from being a real television. As Garfield throws away the spare pieces, they become an electronic monster, the Glitch. The Glitch transports Garfield into the television. Now he must defeat the Glitch and make his way out.

Gameplay

Hub level

The game is a platformer played as the cartoon cat Garfield, who is trapped in his TV. There is a hub level inside the TV that Garfield enters before each level. It contains a doorway to the next level. Garfield moves with and , crouches with , and jumps with . He pushes some objects by moving into them and grabs onto ledges by jumping near them. He is equipped with a melee weapon that he swings with . This weapon can be used an unlimited number of times to attack enemies in close range. He also has a projectile weapon that he throws with . These are limited in supply. Garfield's appearance is themed to each level, which includes how his weapons look, but Garfield and his weapons behave identically regardless of the level. In some levels, he enters passageways with when standing on front of them.

Garfield has ten health points (indicated by a TV set in the corner of the screen). He loses a health point whenever he takes damage from an enemy or a hazard, and he loses a life and restarts the level if he loses all of his health points. The game ends if the player runs out of lives, but it can be continued if the player has continues remaining. There is also a password system for continuing.

There are two difficulty levels, Kitty and Normal, which are identical except that Kitty difficulty adds arrows to the levels that point in the right direction or toward important objects.

The original Mega Drive game features six levels. Sega Channel subscribers could download Garfield: The Lost Levels, which featured three additional levels. One of these levels, Alien Landscape, appears in the PC version of the game, and the remaining two levels, Bonehead the Barbarian and Slobbin Hood, appear in the Game Gear version.

Items

	Pizza
	Restores 1-3 health points to Garfield.
	Hamburger
	Restores 3-5 health points to Garfield.
	Ammunition
	Increases Garfield's supply of projectile weapons by 2.
	Coffee Mug
	Renders Garfield temporarily invincible.
	Garfield
	Gives the player an extra life.
	Pooky
	Garfield's teddy bear, which acts as a continue marker where he revives after losing a life.
	Mallet Key
	Unlocks a bonus level to be played after the current level is completed.
	TV Remote
	Goal that transports Garfield out of the level.

Levels

The level order for the Mega Drive version is: Count Slobula's Castle, Revenge of Orangebeard, Cave Cat 3,000,000 B.C., and the Curse of Cleofatra.

The level order for the PC version is: Cave Cat 3,000,000 B.C., the Curse of Cleofatra, Count Slobula's Castle, Revenge of Orangebeard, Catsablanca, and Alien Landscape.

	Count Slobula's Castle
	Revenge of Orangebeard
	Password:
	Cave Cat 3,000,000 B.C.
	Password:
	Catsablanca
	Password:
	The Curse of Cleofatra
	Password:
	Alien Landscape
	Password:
	The level is exclusive to the PC version and Garfield: The Lost Levels.
	Season Finale

Bonus Levels

	Whack-a-Mole
	This is a whack-a-mole game played if the player finds a Mallet Key item in the preceding level. It can also be played from the options menu without playing the main game. The goal is to hit the characters that pop out of each hole before they go back in the hole. Each hole corresponds to a button on the Mega Drive's control pad: , , and in the top row and , , and for the bottom row. If the player does not have a Six Button Control Pad, +, +, and + substitute for the top row. The player is a shown a character at the beginning that must not be hit; the bonus level ends if the player hits this character or fails to hit another character. The player is not punished for hitting a space with no character. Occasionally, one of the letters comprising GARFIELD appears, and if the player hits all of these letters, the game awards an extra continue.
	Commercial Break
	This bonus level is played after each level. Garfield flies through a tunnel and must collect a certain number of Pookies before the tunnel ends for an extra life or a continue (the number required increases as the game goes on). Garfield moves using the D-Pad. Coffee mugs boost Garfield's speed, while blue energy balls slow him.

Game Gear version

The Game Gear version includes eight levels, two of which appear in the Lost Levels. There is only one type of bonus stage (accessed by finding an icon of Arlene's face in each level), in which you try to wreck everything in Jon's living room within a time limit to get an extra life. Garfield does not have different outfits in each level, and the attacks are the same in all levels (his close-range is a punch, and the projectile are stones). There are no invincibility items. In the between-level segments, you do not take damage from the obstacles; instead, they teleport you back to the start of that segment.

Cave Cat, 3,000,000 B.C.

The Curse of Cleofatra

Count Slobula's Castle

Bonehead the Barbarian

Slobbin Hood

The Revenge of Orangebeard

Catsablanca

Television Wasteland

History

Development

Main article: Garfield: Caught in the Act/Development.

Production credits

Mega Drive version

Sega Interactive Development

• Lead Programmer: Michael Fernie
• Lead Artists: Michael Chung, Art Wong
• Programmers: Kevin Burley, Ala D. Diaz, John LaSalvia, Pravin Wagh
• Artists: Robert Barrett, Kathleen Bruno, Sandra B. Christensen, Petra Evers, Maureen Kringen, Michael Tamura, Rob Titus
• Music Director: Tristan des Prés
• Music: Tristan des Prés, Dwight Stone, Jeffrey Glenn Tveraas
• Sound Effects: David Delia, Jeffrey Glenn Tveraas
• Audio Programmer: James Dobson
• Project Managers: David Brooks, Frank Hsu
• Special Thanks: Carmen Bayacal, Rachel Wong Coleman, Kenneth C. Dullea III, Jack Loh, Nancy Nakamoto, Rodney Nakamoto

Sega of America

• Original Design: Rhonda Van, Sega Interactive, Waterman Designs
• Additional Design: PAWS, Sega of America
• Producers: Eric Quakenbush, Rhonda Van
• Assistant Producers: Bill Person, Erik Wahlberg
• Executive Producer: Michael Latham
• Product Manager: Lisa Best Wilson
• Marketing: Eric Dunstan, Clint Dyer
• Licensing: Michealene Cristini Risley
• Lead Testers: John Amirkhan, Richie Hideshima
• Assistant Lead Testers: Sako Bezdjian, Neil Musser, Mark Subotnick, Caroline Trujillo
• Testers: Mike Borg, Joseph M. Damon, Yancey Gordon, Tai Huyah, Matthew Ironside, Heather Meigs, Camille Morris, Raul Orozco, Jeff Sanders, W. Scott Snyder, Nicole Tatem, Don Tica, Eugene R. Valenzuela, Dana Waller
• Manual: James Cabral, Mike Yoffie
• Thanks: Joyce Takakura
• Special Thanks: Mark Acey, Jim Davis, Jill Hahn, Glenn Zimmerman, PAWS

Source:

In-game credits

Game Gear version

Novotrade Credits

• Developer: Novotrade International
• Director: Laszlo Mero
• Project Director: Don Walters
• Software Director: Attila Bus
• Art Director: Eszter Paris
• Lead Programmer: Laszlo Megyeri
• Programmers: Sandor Michaletzky, Balazs Papai
• Lead Artist: Bori Paris
• Artists: Tibor Botka, Edit Matis
• Music, SFX: Laszlo Fazekas, Csaba Gigor, Gabor Foltan
• Programming Aid: Adam Jedovszky, Gyongyi Mezei
• Level Layout: Laszlo Mero, Eszter Paris, Bori Paris, Tibor Botka
• Developer Tester: Tamas Panczel
• Special Thanks: Andrea Eszterhai, Aniko Bodi

Sega of America Credits

• Original Design: Waterman Design, Sega Interactive
• Additional Design: Sega of America, PAWS, Inc.
• Executive Producuer: Michael Latham
• Producers: Rhonda Van, Eric Quackenbush
• Assistant Producers: Bill Person, Erik Wahlberg
• Product Manager: Lisa Best Wilson
• Marketing: Clint Dyer, Eric Dunstan
• Licensing: Michealene Cristini Risley
• Lead Tester: Arnold Feener
• Assistant Lead Testers: Louis Dribin, Heather Meigs, Nicole Tatem, Jeff Sanders
• Testers: Morgan Weiss, John Jansen, Camille Morris, Mark Subotnick, Joel Breton, Jason Foster, Scott Crisostomo, Brian Murphy, Deserea Blevins, Jessie Light, Shari Shanklin, Scott Snyder, Janis Gragasin, Fernando Valderrama
• Manual: Mike Yoffie, James Cabral
• Special Thanks: Joyce Takakura, Jim Davis, Jill Hahn, Glenn Zimmeramn, Mark Acey and all the folks at PAWS

Source:

US manual

PC version

POV

• Game Engine: Kevin Burley
• Game Conversion: Kevin Burley
• Windows Shell: Mike Terlecki

Sega of America

• Executive Producer: Matt Wolf
• Producer: Scott Hawkins
• Product Manager: Jill Braff
• Lead Testers: Lloyd Kinoshita, Abe Navarro
• Assistant Lead Testers: Fernando Valderrama, Ferdinand Villar
• Testers: Jason Cordero, Arnold Feener, Aaron Hommes, Nicole Tatem, Mark McCunney, Kam Ralston, John Jansen, Amy Albertson, Rob Prideaux, Jay Mijares, Fred Selker, Pedro Ponce, Tricia Gray, Kyle Bingo, Karen Brown, Ian McGuinness, Christina Hurley, Jeffrey Violan, Dennis Lee, Nicolas Azizian
• Special Thanks: Shinobu Toyoda, Bill White, Greg Suarez, Eileen Noguchi, J Tony Smith, Victor Caldwell, Jeff Goodwin, Geraldine Dessimoz, Kristi Walker, Jeanne Ash, John Hurst, Arvin Carlson, Scot Allen, Brandee Broadhurst, Eileen Sacman, Eric Smith, Paul Stathacopoulos, Bob Schonfisch

Sega InterActive Development Divison

• Lead Progammer: Michael Fernie
• Lead Artist: Mike Chung, Art Wong
• Programmers: Kevin Burley, Ala Diaz, John Lasalvia, Pravin Wagh
• Artists: Kathleen Bruno, Robert Barrett, Sandy Christensen, Maureen Kringen, Michael Tamura, Rob Titus, Petra Evers
• Music Director: Tristan Des Pres
• Music: Jeffrye Tveraas, Dwight Stone
• Sound Effects: Jeffrye Tveraas, Dave Delia
• Audio Programming: Jim Dobson
• Project Management: David Brooks

Sega of America

• Executive Producer: Michael Latham
• Producers: Rhonda Van, Eric Quakenbush
• Assistant Producers: Bill Person, Eric Wahlberg
• Original Design: Waterman Designs, Sega InterActive
• Additional Design: Sega of America, Paws, Inc.
• Product Manager: Lisa Best Wilson
• Marketing: Clint Dyer, Eric Dunstan, Michealene Cristini Risley
• Lead Testers: Richie Hideshima, John Amirkhan
• Asst. Lead Testers: Mark Subotnick, Sako Bezdjian, Caroline Trujillo, Neil Musser
• Testers: Joe Damon, Heather Meigs, Matt Ironside, Mike Borg, Nicole Tatem, Raul Orozco, Don Tica, Eugene Valenzuela, Yancey Gordon, Scott Snyder, Camille Morris, Jeff Sanders, Dana Waller, Tai Huyah

Special Thanks

• Thanks To: Carmen Bayacal, Joyce Takakura, Jack Loh, Rachel Coleman, Ken Dullea, Rod Nakamoto, Nancy Nakamoto
• Special Thanks To: Jim Davis, Jill Hahn, Glenn Zimmerman, Mark Acey and all the folks at Paws

Source:

In-game credits

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SEGA ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

• Executive Producer: Matt Wolf
• Producer: Scott Hawkins
• Product Managers: Eileen Noguchi, Jill Braff
• Lead Testers: Lloyd Kinoshita, Abe Navarro
• Assistant Lead Testers: Fernando Valderrama, Ferdinand Villar
• Testers: Amy Albertson, Nicolas Azizian, Kyle Bingo, Doug Broadhurst, Karen Brown, Jason Cordero, Arnold Feener, Tricia Gray, Aaron Hommes, Christina Hurley, John Jansen, Len Jung, Dennis Lee, Mark McCunney, Ian McGuinness, Jay Mijares, Pedro Ponce, Rob Prideaux, Kam Ralston, Fred Selker, Nicole Tatem, Jeffrey Violan
• Special Thanks: Shinobu Toyoda, Greg Suarez, Jeannie Ash, Kristi Walker, John Hurst, Toni Werner, Arvin Carlson, Bob Schonfisch, Eileen Sacman, Scott Allen, Carol Ann Hanshaw

POINT OF VIEW

• PC Conversion: Kevin Burley
• Windows Code: Kevin Burley, Mike Terlecki
• Producer: Mark Nausha

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Garfield: Caught in the Act/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Mega Drive and Game Gear US print advert

Game Gear Print advert in Hobby Consolas (ES) #51: "Diciembre 1995" (1995-xx-xx)
also published in:

• Hobby Consolas (ES) #52: "Enero 1996" (199x-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 60 Consoles + (FR) 75 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 60 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU) 60 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 6 (RU) 70 GameFan (US) NTSC-U 80 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 55 GamePro (DE) 47 Gamers (DE) 47 Hobby Consolas (ES) PAL 77 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 65 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 54 Mean Machines Sega (UK) 67 Sega Power (UK) PAL 70 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 85 Svet Igara (YU) 85 Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) PAL 67 Todo Sega (ES) 81 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 79 Video Games (DE) PAL 59

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Garfield: Caught in the Act

Mega Drive, US
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Mega Drive, EU
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Mega Drive, PT
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Mega Drive, SE (Rental)

Mega Drive, AU
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Mega Drive, BR
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Mega Drive, ZA
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Game Gear version

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Garfield: Caught in the Act

Game Gear, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Game Gear, EU
Cover
Cart Manual

Game Gear, BR
Cover
Cart

PC version

PC, US
Cover
Manual

PC, US (Expert Software)
Cover
Disc Jewel Case

PC, US (Expert Software; alt)

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 f0ff078e MD5 b8591488ca46b51c1d39b6869fa23006 SHA-1 9fff7dea16c4d0e6c9d6dbaade20c7048bb485ec	2MB	1995-09	Cartridge (US/EU)
?	CRC32 cd53f3af MD5 8766ad6ab161ffc7796a543325a82fb6 SHA-1 dc65f458cad3c165d0963b9b6da258d438da2ef7	1MB		Cartridge (US/EU)

External links

• Sega of America webpage: Game Gear